ATHENS – The College of Georgia girls’s basketball crew topped the Auburn Tigers, 70-59, Thursday evening for its final residence sport of the common season in Stegeman Coliseum.

Diamond Battles recorded her fifth 20-point scoring efficiency of the season with a team-leading 21 factors and 4 assists. Brittney Smith adopted intently behind with 19 factors. Javyn Nicholson tallied her fourth double-double of the season with 12 factors and grabbed a team-high 10 boards.

“The gamers that have been right here which might be seniors now, they took an opportunity on us and stayed,” Georgia head coach Katie Abrahamson-Henderson stated. “I had some crew conferences with them proper once I bought right here and simply sort of advised them my imaginative and prescient, what I noticed in them as gamers, how they might match into our system and so they all actually advanced into these gamers that I sort of advised them how they’ll play. It is simply been superior. I want I had extra time to educate them as a result of I really feel like each single considered one of them has gotten higher simply within the brief period of time that we have been right here.”

Again-to-back Smith layups opened the primary quarter for Georgia (20-9, 9-6 SEC) to construct a five-point lead over the Tigers. A pair of blocked photographs and an Auburn (14-13, 4-11 SEC) turnover gave life to the Georgia offense. Attacking the paint, the Girl Bulldogs scored 10 of their 13 first quarter factors in the important thing. 5 Tiger factors closed in on the Girl Bulldogs’ result in shut the primary body trailing, 13-9.

The Girl Bulldogs added three factors from Battles to their lead at first of the second quarter and boosted their result in 5, 16-11. The Tigers used a 7-2 run to knot the rating at 20 with underneath 4 minutes remaining within the first half. Two lead adjustments and eight-straight Girl Bulldog factors gave Georgia a 28-25 lead on the half.

Six Auburn factors within the paint had the Tigers trailing by two, 34-32. Free throws from Chloe Chapman, Battles and Nicholson prolonged Georgia’s result in eight. A 12-4 run gave the Girl Bulldogs a 10-point lead, 48-38. A triple from Battles boosted Georgia forward as Auburn trialed, 54-43, heading into the ultimate body.

Quick scoring runs for the Girl Bulldogs gave Georgia a 12-point lead earlier than 4 unanswered Tigers factors had Auburn trailing by eight. Auburn used a 9-4 scoring run to inch nearer to Georgia’s lead, however free throws from Smith and Battles solidified the Girl Bulldogs’ 70-59 game-winning benefit.

Georgia will now journey to Columbia, S.C. to conclude common season play in opposition to the Gamecocks on Sunday, Feb. 26 at 12 p.m. The sport might be aired on ESPN2.